pissaladière
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pissaladière.
See also: pissaladiere
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from French pissaladière, in turn borrowed from Niçard Provençal pissaladiera, from pissalat (an anchovy-based condiment), from peis salat (“salted fish”), suffixed with -iera.
Pronunciation
Noun
pissaladière (countable and uncountable, plural pissaladières)
- A pie from southern France, similar to pizza, without tomatoes or cheese, usually topped with onions, anchovies and black olives.
- 1980, Robert Beauvais, translated by Harold J. Salemson, The Half Jew, New York, N.Y.: Taplinger Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 23:
- “You never ate pissaladière, did you? It’s just as good as pizza, you’ll see. Some people like it even better.”
Translations
pizza-like pie from southern France
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French
Etymology
Borrowed from Provençal pissaladiera, from pissalat (an anchovy-based condiment), from peis salat (“salted fish”), suffixed with -iera.
Pronunciation
Noun
pissaladière f (plural pissaladières)
- pissaladière (pizza-like pie from southern France)
Further reading
- “pissaladière”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.